Culture Club 2.23.09

Links, links, links...as you can see, my Google Reader was a mess towards the end of last week, but I've done my duty to you and waded through the muck.

-Dazed Digital has an interview with Joel Karlsson and Henrik Markstedt of Air France
-Here’s a short interview with The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg’s rap group) from NY Mag
-The Howling Fantods has an interview with David Foster Wallace from 1993 (via kottke)
-If you like basketball at all, read these next two pieces: ESPN’s Bill Simmons ranks the top 40 NBA players by their trade value and Michael Lewis profiles Shane Battier for the Sunday Times Magazine
-Behance profiles Google’s Ji Lee
-Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman on The West Wing) on playing a character based on Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
-I just came across this video of Ira Glass (of This American Life) discussing storytelling and narratives in our culture from Gel Conference 2007, well worth your half hour
-From The New Yorker’s Book Bench here’s a short interview with The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore whose new book is titled “I’d Rather We Got Casinos, and Other Black Thoughts”

(time for a breather...dope deck from Girl's Rick Howard, no?)

-The Wall Street Journal has a piece on clothing company Five Four’s strategies of dealing with the recession…good read
-The Washington Post has a wonderful graphic breakdown of Obama’s stimulus package
-More on Demetri Martin: NYMag profile
-Will Leitch (formerly of Deadspin) on Twitter: “…maybe the last dreamworld of infinite possibilities on Earth.”
-From The New Yorker: Ryan Lizza on Rahm Emanuel, Jane Meyer on the administration’s approaches to terrorism, James Surowiecki on unemployment, and Bruce McCall dreams up Obama’s BlackBerry
-More from New York Mag: a profile of a kid who steals to stay fresh, Madoff, the Monster Mench?, and John Heilemann on Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele and the new GOP

Back with tales of radio, the California coast, rental cars, my little cousins and Laura